Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 9 Restraining Cavalry
Chapter 009 Restraining the Cavalry

Everything is difficult at the beginning, Ran Ming deeply understands this.

However, Ran Ming is not afraid of difficulties. After all, he once built a huge business empire with his bare hands, relying on Ran Ming's stubbornness of never admitting defeat.

Su Jue and Ran Feng were busy picking young men.

Su Jue's work efficiency is still very high. In less than an hour, he selected more than 5000 people from among the refugees!

According to the organization of the Wei army, Su Jue had five people for one team, two teams for one tenure, five tenures for one team, two teams for one village, five villages for one tune, two tunes for one troop, and five divisions for one battalion.After Su Jue completed the reorganization of the army, he pulled the Beiwei army out for basic army training without stopping.

More than 100 craftsmen in ragged clothes were brought to Ran Ming. All of these 100 craftsmen had rough hands and feet, their faces were weathered, and their clothes were also in tatters. Some of them didn't even have shoes.His lips were purple from the cold.Although the weather at this time is not considered severe cold, they only have some rags to cover the indescribable parts of the human body, which has no effect of keeping out the cold at all, so it's no wonder it's not cold!
Ran Ming couldn't stand it anymore, these are all talents, how could they treat them like this?
Then let them go down and have a bowl of hot porridge first.These more than 100 craftsmen drank hot porridge and were summoned by Ran Ming in less than half an hour!

Ran Mindao said to the craftsmen, "Which one of you is a blacksmith? Who is a carpenter?"

At this moment, a 50-[-]-year-old old craftsman stepped forward and clasped his fists: "General, the villain is a blacksmith! It's not that the little old man is boasting. On the ground in Jizhou, the knives, guns, swords, and axes that the little old man used He has always been one of the best, even though he broke his family later, but the little old man has never let go of his craft!"

Then most of the people below responded that they were blacksmiths!

Ran Ming roughly counted, and there were six to seventy blacksmiths!Ran Ming was secretly happy that there were sixty or seventy blacksmiths, and there was still time.

Ran Ming pointed to the old blacksmith and asked, "What's your name?"

Ran Ming pointed to the old blacksmith who spoke first and said, "The little old man's surname is Niu, and he is called Niu Dahammer!"

Ran Ming handed a pre-drawn blueprint to Niu Dachui, "Can you make this thing?"

Niu Dachui looked at the drawing and said, "General, this should be a shovel, but the shape is a bit strange!"

"It's strange and has a strange purpose!" What Ran Ming gave Niu the sledgehammer was actually the shovel of later German engineers. It was just for the convenience of manufacturing. Ran Ming removed the folding structure in it, and it was just a shovel head. For blacksmiths, it was almost no difficulty. Just some new styles!
"Niu Dahammer, now you go to General Ran Feng and ask them to prepare the things you need for blacksmithing. Also, you should work hard in the future, and it is best to make this thing within three days. I need five thousand, you guys If you can complete this task, you will not only be able to have enough food every day, but also receive a bucket of food for every day in advance. Of course, two days in advance is two buckets!"

"A bucket of grain!" Niu Dachui looked at Ran Ming incredulously, "You really mean what the general said?"

Ran Ming said: "Of course!"

Niu Dachui said: "We have 68 people, and each of us needs to beat more than [-] shots on average! With things like this, as long as the little old man is full, he can hit [-] shots a day!"

Ran Ming is not to blame, in fact, he does not understand the work efficiency of ancient blacksmiths!
Ran Ming didn't regret it either, but fortunately he didn't brag, ten buckets of grain cost only ten stones of grain, probably more than 100 catties, and Ran Ming could still afford it.

Wei Meng's craftsman leads the manufacture of what he designs!
With the encouragement of food, the speed of those craftsmen was very fast. In the morning of the next day, Niu Sledgehammer actually finished making the engineering shovel!Ran Ming was very excited.Immediately ask someone to distribute [-] engineering shovels to the Beiwei army selected by Su Jue!
Su Jue saw the soldiers that Ran Ming gave him the engineering shovel, and asked in puzzlement, "Your Highness, what is this for?"

"Digging a hole!" Ran Ming said confidently: "Now you lead the cub army to Liantai. After arriving at Liantai, the troops will be divided into two, and half of them will walk along the official road from Liantai to Anxi. Dig holes everywhere! This kind of hole needs to be as thick as a bowl, and about two and a half feet deep is enough! But remember to spread the excavated soil evenly on the ground. Come out, it's up to you whether you can defeat the Yan army!"

"As for the other half, follow the blueprint I gave you, deploy defenses at Liantai, and dig more tunnels."

Su Jue saw that Ran Ming attached great importance to this task, and he said firmly: "If the last general fails to complete the task, come and see him!"

Su Jue set off with an army of [-] migrant workers. As for whether it can be as imagined.Ran Ming didn't know anymore, so he had to resign himself to fate!
As for the things made by carpenters, it is actually a wooden gun for rejecting horses recorded in the "Wu Jing Zong Yao" in the Northern Song Dynasty.However, they are not the same. Ran Ming asked the craftsman to put two crossbars side by side, each two feet four feet long, with grooves engraved on them, and 24 wooden guns can be placed side by side on the two crossbars!This is neither a triangular refusal.Nor is it rectangular.To be precise, this is just flat rejection!

Seeing the completed refusal horse, Ran Ming asked Ran Feng to gather all the troops. At this time, there were 1000 or 100 Wei soldiers in the house camp.More than [-] of them were recruited by Su Juechong as grassroots officers in the back cub army!
"Your Highness! The soldiers are assembled!" Ran Feng didn't know what Ran Ming was going to do, but he was just an adopted son, and Ran Ming was also considered his master, so Ran Ming had an order, and he had to obey!
Ran Ming looked at the surrounding soldiers and said, "Generals, do you know what is the most powerful Xianbei people?"

"It's cavalry!"

"Yes, the Xianbei people not only have a large number of cavalry, but also are very brave. Xianbei defeated the Huns. They also defeated the Jie people. They are also nomadic people, and they are also divided into ranks. The combat effectiveness of the Xianbei people can be said to be very high. They There are not only a lot of light cavalry, but also a lot of heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry in Xianbei not only puts on heavy armor, but even the horses put on vests, so they can not be afraid of knives, stabs, and arrows."

Moreover, the Xianbei people connected several or even dozens of heavy cavalry with leather locks, pushing forward like a wall. How can we resist the enemy? "

More than a thousand soldiers of the Wei army fell into deep thought. Many of them were fierce soldiers who had followed Ran Min for many years. Many of them had participated in the Lingshui (Daling River) in the sixth year of Yonghe (350 A.D.) after Zhao and Yan. ) battle, it was a battle. Although Ran Min won a big victory, Hou Zhao also suffered heavy losses. Tens of thousands of elite Jie tribe soldiers died in battle!

Among the Huns, in terms of viciousness, the Xiongnu are definitely not at the top. The Jie people are much more fierce than the Xiongnu, at least the Huns can only run away from the same number of Jie people.But the Jie people have always lost more and won less against the Xianbei people. Both Shi Le and Shi Hu have been defeated by the Xianbei people!
Ma Qiu, the general of Hou Zhao, is one of the most powerful generals in Hou Zhao. He is notorious and can stop crying children.However, the [-] Jie cavalry led by Ma Qiu still could not beat the [-] Xianbei cavalry, which shows how tough the Xianbei people are in fighting!

The soldiers of the Wei army present showed confusion. Although they always win more with less and kill the Hu people to flee, they have never fought against Xianbei on a large scale!At this time, everyone looked dignified!

Seeing this, Ran Ming knew that it was not good. If he kept quiet, his morale might be demoralized!
Ran Ming raised his head before the battle, the spring breeze blew his black cloak, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on him. He was like a majestic god in the eyes of the soldiers!Ran Ming relaxed and confident, and said loudly: "Everyone has weaknesses, and Xianbei people are no exception!"

"May I ask Your Highness, Xianbei is proficient in riding and shooting, light cavalry can come and go like flying, Yan Jun's heavy cavalry is not afraid of swords, how can our army defeat the enemy?"

"There is a saying in the art of war. If you know the enemy and know the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles! If you want to defeat the Xianbei people, you must first understand the advantages and disadvantages of the Xianbei people's warfare." Ran Ming said loudly: "It is true that the Xianbei people are good at riding and shooting, but the Xianbei people use riding bows lightly. , can shoot freely on horseback, but because they are too dexterous and not powerful enough, their bows and arrows are much closer in range than our Wei army's infantry. The distance and the strength of the arrow are almost exhausted. Not to mention that we are wearing fine iron armor, even if we wear a layer of cow armor, they still can't shoot through it! If you wear iron armor, you have to walk within thirty steps. If cavalry enters this distance, they will no longer use bows and arrows!"

At this time, the soldiers of the Wei army around showed the expressions of "So that's how it is!" Short, generally speaking, cavalry bows can only deal with unarmored targets of [-] to [-] steps. Even if the generals of the Wei army wear light armor, to break through light armor, the seven-dou bow needs to walk within [-] steps. At that time, the distance of twenty steps, that is, the blink of an eye, once the arrow can't kill the enemy, the bow and arrow in their hands is not as good as a firestick.

Ran Min was invincible in history, apart from his extraordinary bravery and wisdom, there is also a very important point, Wei Jun's equipment is very good!Their armor can not be afraid of the enemy's arrows, and Wei Jun's armor-piercing heavy crossbow can easily tear through the armor of Yan Jun's soldiers!
Speaking of the strong defensive ability of the Wei army's armor, these Wei army soldiers have experienced it personally. They have participated in bloody battles many times and suffered minor injuries, but they have never suffered fatal injuries!

Ran Ming continued: "We know these combat characteristics of the Yan Army cavalry, so it's easy to handle. If they surround us and shoot at us, we will form a circle with shields at the front, use our feet to push crossbows, smash Armored crossbows are used to shoot at each other. Some people may ask, because the cavalry is galloping, we can’t aim. In fact, their accuracy is not very good! Of course, we still have a range advantage. You can easily shoot them at a distance of eighty steps! Shoot people first and shoot horses, and they will definitely hit them with teeth all over the ground!"

(End of this chapter)